"Topkill" - Will it Turn into Bottomkill?

[Henry Hawk]

[Palehorse]

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I understand the importance of continuity in an operation of such importance, but I'm betting this is the last we'll see of this guy once the immediate issue is addressed. His constant ineptness in front of the press is not conducive to a long term career as NIC for sure. . . He'll be swabbing decks or retiring forthwith once the gusher is stopped. 

News is that ol' Thad is now officially "retired" but staying in place until the gusher is plugged. . . 

[Palehorse]

Robert, Louisiana (CNN) -- Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday, and engineers and executives with the oil giant have decided to "move on to the next option."
That option: Place a custom-built cap to fit over the "lower marine riser package," BP chief operation officer Doug Suttles said. BP crews were already at work Saturday to ready the materials for that option, he said.
Suttles said three separate pumping efforts and 30,000 barrels of mud -- along with what chief executive officer Tony Hayward described as "16 different bridging material shots" -- just didn't do the trick. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/29/us.gulf.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

[me]

One article I read mentioned blowing it up like the Chinese do when one of their wells spring a leak.  I think it was China at least it's been a couple of weeks ago that I ran across the article.  It kind of makes sense but I wonder if the depth of the well plus the depth of the leak makes that not possible for some reason.

[The Troll]

One article I read mentioned blowing it up like the Chinese do when one of their wells spring a leak.  I think it was China at least it's been a couple of weeks ago that I ran across the article.  It kind of makes sense but I wonder if the depth of the well plus the depth of the leak makes that not possible for some reason.

  I have thought about that.  But what most people don't realize that the water pressure is around 2,300 pound per square inch.  That like having a ton weight on each and every inch of your body.  A human body would become a lot smaller, down to the amount of water in your body.  Water can't be compressed.

  Since conventional explosive most likely wouldn,t work.  Drill a well, on the slant, next to the bad well and  place a water proof tactical nuke, bomb at the depth of 1000 in the earth and blow the dam thing shut.  On the new well, put a damn good back flow preventer.

  Just another brain fart of an idea, who know what will work. 

[rotflmao]

I am no engineer so whatever they do I hope it's well thought out when using explosives and fissures and cracks in the earth that far down. This is a horrible, horrible thing to have happened to wildlife and people.

[Locutus]

Indeed!  It's an ecological and environmental disaster of unfathomable proportions. 

[Palehorse]

Washington (CNN) -- Rep. Edward Markey on Monday challenged the assertion by oil giant BP's chief executive that no underwater oil plumes have formed because of the Gulf of Mexico spill.
In a letter to BP, Markey, D-Massachusetts, said scientific evidence showed that such plumes have formed, and he asked for BP CEO Tony Hayward to provide evidence to back up Hayward's claim Sunday that the oil had gone to the surface.
On Sunday, Markey, who heads the House Energy and Environment subcommittee, accused BP of issuing false statements about the spill.
"BP in this instance means 'Blind to Plumes,' " Markey said in a statement Monday.
There was no immediate response from BP.
Markey's letter to BP said "the confirmation of the presence of large quantities of oil sub-surface could help to inform clean-up and response efforts, and it is vital that there is unfettered access to all relevant data or analysis."
The letter noted that University of South Florida researchers recently reported finding a 22-mile-long plume of dispersed oil. . .

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/31/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=T3

[me]

This whole thing stinks.  Why would a company that large not be doing everything in their power to get that thing stopped and be upfront and open with whats going on.  What are they thinking they're going to gain other than being put out of business? 

[Palehorse]

This whole thing stinks.  Why would a company that large not be doing everything in their power to get that thing stopped and be upfront and open with whats going on.  What are they thinking they're going to gain other than being put out of business?

My opinion? One thing and one thing only is at the root of this, the corporate credo; "Protect the bottom line".

They don't care about anything else! 

[me]

My opinion? One thing and one thing only is at the root of this, the corporate credo; "Protect the bottom line".

They don't care about anything else! 

But in this case protecting it is going to put them out of business. 

[Palehorse]

But in this case protecting it is going to put them out of business.

Well, given the hundreds of billions of dollars in profit they've been reaping for the last decade or so, if they have not built up a sizable contingency fund to take care of such possibilities, then they deserve to go out of business. . .

[rotflmao]

You know they have not built up a disaster fund. CEO's today are job skipping and have been as a rule for about 2 decades now. Going from one corporation to the next as a ladder to mega millions in their bank accounts. There is no job loyalty or sense of ownership anymore.

Rats abandoning a sinking ship mentality.Our Government should have taken  control of this cleanup  circus a month ago.

[Palehorse]

. . .Our Government should have taken  control of this cleanup  circus a month ago.

Had that happened it would have been used as another "example" by the political opposition, of the supposed covert path to socialism they consistently try to beat the POTUS with and have since before the election. . .

[rotflmao]

Had that happened it would have been used as another "example" by the political opposition, of the supposed covert path to socialism they consistently try to beat the POTUS with and have since before the election. . .

So Pres Bush was fried in oil because he let The elected Mayor and Governor of Louisiana room to do their jobs which they failed miserably with. The socialist  man child gets a pass for over 30 days.

Typical.